Anesthesia vs. Anesthetic — What's the Difference?

Anesthesia is a state of controlled, temporary loss of sensation or awareness that is induced for medical purposes. It may include some or all of analgesia (relief from or prevention of pain), paralysis (muscle relaxation), amnesia (loss of memory), and unconsciousness.

An anesthetic (American English) or anaesthetic (British English; see spelling differences) is a drug used to induce anesthesia ⁠— ⁠in other words, to result in a temporary loss of sensation or awareness. They may be divided into two broad classes: general anesthetics, which result in a reversible loss of consciousness, and local anesthetics, which cause a reversible loss of sensation for a limited region of the body without necessarily affecting consciousness.A wide variety of drugs are used in modern anesthetic practice.

Total or partial loss of sensation, especially tactile sensibility, induced by disease, injury, acupuncture, or an anesthetic, such as chloroform or nitrous oxide.

Relating to or resembling anesthesia.

Local or general insensibility to pain with or without the loss of consciousness, induced by an anesthetic.

Causing anesthesia.

Medication that induces partial or total loss of sensation and may be topical, local, regional, or general, depending on the method of administration and area of the body affected.

Insensitive.

(medicine)An artificial method of preventing sensation, used to eliminate pain without causing loss of vital functions, by the administration of one or more agents which block pain impulses before transmitted to the brain.

An agent that causes loss of sensation with or without the loss of consciousness.

(American spelling) The loss or prevention of sensation, as caused by anesthesia (in the above sense), or by a lesion in the nervous system, or by another physical abnormality.

Something likened to this in effect

A substance administered to reduce the perception of pain or to induce numbness for surgery and may render the recipient unconscious.

Causing anesthesia; reducing pain sensitivity.

Same as Anæsthesia, Anæsthetic.

Insensate: unable to feel, or unconscious. improve!

Loss of bodily sensation with or without loss of consciousness

A substance administered to reduce the perception of pain or to induce numbness for surgery and may render the recipient unconscious.

A drug that causes temporary loss of bodily sensations

Characterized by insensibility;